Residents are being urged to stay inside and keep doors and windows closed while the fire service tackles a blaze at a farm near Claverham, ...

The closure will be in effect from Tuesday, August 12, and will affect the section outside property number five.

A six-month footpath closure is planned to allow resurfacing and improvement works. North Somerset Council will temporarily close two footpaths in Weston-super-Mare from Monday, September 29.

The plans, submitted by Mr Dan Stowell, include taking down the current single-storey rear extension and conservatory, and putting up a new one. The decision was made on Tuesday, July 22, and work ...

The application was received on Monday, July 21 and validated on Friday, July 25. A diseased and rotting Holy tree at 5 Tower Walk is set for removal. The application was received on Monday, July 21 ...

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Rescue teams have found a body inside a section of a copper mine in Chile that collapsed two days earlier during a moderate earthquake, the mine’s director said on Saturday. Rescuers have been trying ...

Lucy Hargreaves, 22, was asleep on the sofa when three men burst into her home in Walton, Liverpool, on August 3 2005 and fatally injured her.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also said she plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog.

The NHS maintained care for an estimated 10,000 more patients during the latest doctors’ strike compared with last year’s industrial action. Early data shows that 93% of planned operations, tests and ...

As numbers surge this year, Butterfly Conservation said sightings in unexpected places tell an important story about climate change.

Countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, where they will hope to break a deadlock in talks for a legally binding agreement on plastics.